Quotes About Progress

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

he found all religions uninteresting because, almost without exception, they start from the present and speculate ahead as to what men shall become, instead of looking back and speculating why men have got here as they are.

Both professor and student share in the pursuit of excellence and perfection.

A Muslim will never get tired and bored of educating himself throughout his life.

embrase imperfection

the election of Obama showed that America had moved beyond 'race' into a definitively post-racial era in which now even a black American could be president. The

Things can change over time, what looks fixed and pinned and closed in a life can change and open, and what's unthinkable and impossible at one time will easily be possible in another.

Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?

Here's an old story so new that it's still in the middle of happening, writing itself right now with no knowledge of where or how it'll end.

Meanwhile, days pass.

You can't stop change, the man says. It comes of necessity. You have to go with it and make something of what it makes of you.

Eras end, Paulina said. I'm Romanian. I know. They have to. So that new eras can begin.

it was a thing that has to fall to rise …

the past is known, but the future can sometimes be troublesome!

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!

Parenting is not about going back," she said. "Parenting is all about moving forward, and constant, unpredictable change.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

If you remember better times you know they were lies, because they led to this

but I know I never really arrive.

try to help us; you the past led us here . . .

I want us to be better people.

I'm so sticky with Fate that I can hardly move for fear of it. Maybe the point is that you can always see or feel it coming. The beginning and the unraveling at the same time, you see. You need to get slightly ahead.